This is an analysis of the poem The Last Ship that begins with:
W'en the floods come down an' the
Ark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabBbBaabbcdeef f GbabeXXhihiijjgbfX cBcBffkkhXdXh h GbhbggllXXmmgbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,18,13,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011110 1 11 011111 11101111 001101 1100111001 0110100111 1111101011 1101101011 111111111 110010100 0111100101 1011111111 11111101001 1111111101 111011111 1101111 11101011 10111011 110110111 0111101011 01 1 1101 1 1 10111101001 10101110111 1011101111 11010111111011 10100111 1110111111 00101111 110111111 011111 0101011001 001101 110111101 0111011011 1111011111 11111011 11100111 10101101 101101110 00100001110 110011101 1110111111 111011111 1110101 111100101 010111 110101101 011111001 11110111 011110011 11011 1 101 1001111001 111010111111111 0100101 1110111111 00101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', ship, to, or, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', the are repeated.
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